Hello. I'd like to read your thoughts about an implementation of "tooltip
titles" of internal links.
The tooltip titles are small boxes appearing when the mouse cursor moves over
a link or a picture and can give some additional information for the reader
about the linked site, page, file or image.
I would like to enable this syntax:
[[WikiPage"Tooltip title"]] displays WikiPage
[[WikiPage"Tooltip title"|link text]] displays link text
[[WikiPage"Tooltip title"|+]] displays the title of the page
[[WikiPage"Tooltip title"|#]] a number/reference
1. This would be consistent with the markup used for tooltip titles of
embedded pictures which have been available for 6+ years:
http://site/picture.jpg"Tooltip title"
http://site/picture.jpg"Tooltip title" | caption text
Attach:picture.jpg"Tooltip title"
2. This would be consistent with the markup for external links, InterMap links
and links to attachments:
[[http://pmwiki.org"Tooltip title"|link text]]
[[Wikipedia:Free_Software"Tooltip title"|link text]]
[[mailto:address at example.com"Tooltip title"|link text]]
[[Attach:file.zip"Tooltip title"|link text]]
Titles for external links were captured and processed in this format since
2006, but were not displayed in the default installation, although this was
documented and admins could enable it in config.php. Version 2.2.14,
released 20 months ago, started displaying the tooltip titles by default.
3. Also since 2006, PmWiki captures the "..." part in internal links like a
tooltip title, but instead of using it for a tooltip title, it keeps it in the
link text (not in the link target page, [[Page"Tooltip title"]] links to
[[Page]]). Fixing this would require only a few minor changes.
These are the reasons to adopt the [[WikiPage"Tooltip title"]] markup:
consistency with other tooltip markups, easy to implement, unlikely to break
existing wikis.
There is a reason why not to implement it this way, notably PmWiki.RoadMap
suggests the format [[Link|text|title]]. In a previous discussion,
* 3 users+Pm preferred that format
* 5 users preferred [[Link"Title"|text]] :
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/24697
So I'd like to know what do you think about this feature. Note that
implementing it will not break existing wikipages - internal link titles never
worked - but it will allow future improvements of accessibility for those who
need it.
Petko
Other links:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/RoadMaphttp://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/01172 Add "title" attr. to internal links
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00657 Add "title" attr. to external links